Boulder City Showdown

Steps...

(1) Help the NCR kill all the Great Khans up in the Boulder City ruins.

Important Items...

None.

This is yet another side quest that's intimately intertwined with the game's main mission as chronicled in our gigantic Walkthrough . During the end of the main quest known as They Went That-a-Way, you'll have to travel over to a location known as Boulder City. Boulder City is located far to the east of Goodsprings. You'll have to head there from Novac (which is southwest of Boulder City) in order to finish your task off. When you arrive at Boulder City, you'll find that the town is extremely dilapidated, even more-so than many of the other towns, villages and settlements in the Mojave Wasteland. One of the only people you'll find that you can speak with is named Lieutenant Monroe. And as you speak to Monroe, you'll realize that he could really use your help. That's where this side quest comes into play.

Lieutenant Monroe needs you to head into the central ruins of Boulder City to help free a couple of NCR soldiers that have been taken hostage by the Great Khans occupying this city. As is usually the case, you'll have some choices here. There's a violent and straight-forward solution to this problem, or there's a more diplomatic and roundabout way to end this stand-off. Remembering of course that the Great Khans were responsible for nearly killing you in the unfortunate events that lead to you waking up at Doc Mitchell's in the beginning of the game, we chose to go the violent route. After all, the Great Khans have it coming, and killing them will only make the NCR respect you even more. Should you choose to take another route, please keep in mind that it won't be covered here.

There are only four or five Great Khan enemies in the ruins. Two or three of them are outside, and the other two are in the small hideout that the Great Khans have carved out for themselves. Since the outcome of this task is somewhat contingent on rescuing the NCR hostages here, your best bet (if you're neutral with the Great Khans, which you should be) is to walk up to where the hostages are being held, and rapidly free them. This will make the Great Khans turn on you immediately. While the hostages do their best to get away, pull out your gun-of-choice and take out the Great Khans. Your friends in the NCR will provide some adequate backup here. Once the enemies are all felled outside, head inside to the Great Khan's hideout, where two more enemies can be eliminated. Once everyone's dead, you're then free to head back to Boulder City proper, where Lieutenant Monroe, one way or the other, will thank you for a job well done.